primer-workflow SKILL.md skillA
primer-workflow from ammonhaggerty/a-primer-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ammonhaggerty/a-primer-skills/primer-workflow@git:20260226.42acd64Pins git:20260226.42acd64 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ammonhaggerty/a-primer-skills
- Path
skills/primer-workflow/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260226.42acd64, committed Feb 26, 2026
- First version recorded
- Feb 26, 2026
- Size
- 13,733 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
This skill should be used when the user is brainstorming ideas, planning features, building with Claude, working with Figma designs, debugging errors, troubleshooting issues, or expressing confusion or frustration during development. Provides beginner-friendly workflow guidance for AI-assisted product development.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Primer Workflow Guidance ## Overview Passive guidance for beginner developers learning AI-assisted product development. Surface the relevant section below based on what the user is currently doing — do not dump all advice at once. Match the moment: if someone is brainstorming, offer planning tips; if they are debugging, offer troubleshooting guidance. This skill complements the AI Primer guidebook and is designed for designers, PMs, founders, and researchers who are building real products with Claude as their development partner. Treat every interaction as a coaching opportunity. Weave guidance naturally into responses rather than lecturing. When the user is in flow, stay out of the way. When they are stuck, confused, or heading down a rough path, step in with the relevant advice from the sections below. --- ## Brainstorming & Planning Surface this guidance when the user is exploring ideas, describing something they want to build, or jumping straight into code without a plan. Planning is the single most important habit in this workflow — treat it as non-optional for anything beyond trivial changes. ### Always plan first — and write the plan to a file …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ammonhaggerty/a-primer-skills/primer-workflow@sha256:007a4fbce4317368The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260226.42acd64, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_dgckjisujrsh5i2z)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Feb 26, 2026.
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| git:20260226.42acd64 latest | 2026-02-26 | 42acd64 | 13,733 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260226.9aa2d00 | 2026-02-26 | 9aa2d00 | 11,159 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
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- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
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- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
ammonhaggerty/a-primer-skills · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-12 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dgckjisujrsh5i2z GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ammonhaggerty/a-primer-skills/primer-workflow GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/007a4fbce431736843ddb287341f6aaf12c6322c05b165e80039246dfa01f749
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.